John Smith

GLOUCESTER — Just as John Smith did 400 years ago, Gov. Terry McAuliffe arrived by boat at Werowocomoco on the banks of the York River to survey in person a land of rich history and great promise.

McAuliffe visited on Tuesday the farm owned by Bob and Lynn Ripley — formerly occupied by Powhatan and his daughter Pocahontas in 1607 when English settlers arrived in Virginia — that could become a national park, linking Gloucester with the Hampton Roads region's famed Historic Triangle of Jamestown, Yorktown and Williamsburg.

President Barack Obama's proposed budget calls for spending $6 million on the Werowocomoco site in Gloucester and the John Smith Trail,...

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GLOUCESTER — Just as John Smith did 400 years ago, Gov. Terry McAuliffe arrived by boat at Werowocomoco on the banks of the York River to survey in person a land of rich history and great promise.
McAuliffe visited on Tuesday the farm owned by Bob and...

Archaeologists probing the early James Fort kitchen where they unearthed evidence of cannibalism this past year have discovered an earlier layer of artifacts showing that — just months before the Starving Time of 1609-10 — the colonists were filling their...